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96 Manipulating Images

Meanwhile, the dialog provides visual feedback.

1. If Show Selection is checked, the grayscale Selection window on the right

shows tagged values as brighter, with untagged pixels darker. To customize

what’s displayed in the Preview window on the left, choose an option from

the Preview list: "None" shows the original image, "White Matte" shows

tagged pixels through a white background, and so on.

2. Click OK to confirm the selection, or Cancel to abandon changes. Reset

reverts back to original dialog settings.

Storing selections

Finally, you can store selections (i.e., just the marqueed region and per-pixel

selectedness data) as part of either the current image or any open image file, and

load a stored selection at any time. It's often useful to be able to "grab" the same

region of an image at different phases of working on it. And, for repetitive tasks

(preparing web buttons, for example) on different but graphically similar files,

by storing a selection you can reuse it rather than having to recreate it for each

file.

Modifying a selection

Once you've used a selection tool to select a region on the active layer, you can

carry out a number of additional steps to fine-tune the selection before you

actually apply an effect or manipulation to the selected pixels. Paint to Select

mode even lets you use standard painting or editing tools as selection tools!

Transforming the selection

The Selection Deform Tool on the Tools

toolbar's Deform Tools flyout lets you transform,

scale or rotate any already drawn selection area.

With the tool enabled, square nodes on the mid-

points and corners of any selected area can be

dragged (opposite).

Look for the cursor changing between resize and

rotate modes when hovering over a corner node.

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